Middle East Christians - Хришћани на блиском и средњем истоку

[Zayron]

На овој теми су вијести, информације и репортаже, тесктови, видеа и дотографије о хришћанима на блиском ио средњем истоку - на енглеском:

 

Coptic Christian churches, buildings targeted in Egypt for second straight day

 

Published August 15, 2  / FoxNews.com

 

Attacks on Coptic Christian churches in Egypt continued for a second day Thursday, the country’s state-run news agency said, as Muslim Brotherhood supporters torched a church in a province outside of Cairo.

Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/15/coptic-christian-churches-buildings-targeted-by-muslim-brotherhood-for-second/

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Christians, other minorities in Syria fear 'ethnic cleansing'

Will USA bomb Syrian rebels, to prevent humanitarian crisis?

Read more.

http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/christians-other-minorities-in-syria-fear-ethnic-cleansing-1.236246

[Zayron]

Bartholomew: Together with our brother Francis, we shall pray for peace in Syria

 

 

09/06/2013 13:35
ORTHODOX - VATICAN - SYRIA

 

Bartholomew: Together with our brother Francis, we shall pray for peace in Syria

 

by NAT da Polis The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople "welcomes the Pope's call for a day of prayer and fasting". Patriarch also issues an appeal to world leaders gathered for the G20. May God "enlighten your minds" fir "war must be avoided at all costs."

Riga (AsiaNews) - The Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate "welcomes the appeal of our brother in Christ, Pope Francis, for a day of prayer and fasting for peace in Syria, the Middle East and the world, a prayer that has been constant since the bloody conflict started in Damascus," said the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, during an official visit to Estonia.

"The Ecumenical Patriarchate and we personally look forward to the developments of the situation in Syria, and more generally in the Middle East, praying that peace shall prevail," the patriarch said during a meeting with the speaker of the Estonian Parliament Ene Ergma.

For the Orthodox leader, only if peace wins "shall it be possible for Christians in the Middle East continue to live without any impediment in their lands."

"Let us closely follow the G20 summit in St Petersburg, and let us hope that decisions taken [there] will be used to contribute to a peaceful solution to the political question in Syria."

The Church of Constantinople, the patriarch said, "welcomes Pope Francis's appeal to the Christians of the Earth to unite in prayer and fasting next Saturday so that peace may prevail in the fiery Syrian land, hoping that God might enlighten the minds of policy makers and prevent military actions that would inevitably result in the death of innocent victims."

In concluding, Bartholomew added, "We, too, shall heed the call from our brother in Christ Francis to pray next Saturday for this purpose as we have always done since the start of the bloody conflict in Syria."

 

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bartholomew:-Together-with-our-brother-Francis,-we-shall-pray-for-peace-in-Syria-28938.html

[Zayron]

O još nekim drugim razlozima i uzrocima smrti novinara Jamesa Foleya:

James Foley and fellow freelancers: exploited by pared-back media outlets
In this new age of journalism, publishers should not

abdicate responsibility by hiding behind low budgets

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/21/james-foley-freelance-journalists-exploited-media-outlets

Ubistvo američkog novinara je posljedicom

postepenog kolapsa zapadnih medija

Zavraždění amerického novináře je důsledkem

postupného kolapsu západních médií - See more at:

http://www.blisty.cz/art/74423.html

[feeble]

Moram malo da iskoristim priliku i spamujem sa delom predavanja mog omiljenog šejha koji predviđa savez muslimana i pravoslavnih hrišćana i inače zove ovo što se dešava u Siriji i Iraku yankee jihad

 

[feeble]

Много си се ти ухватио за тог шеха. Мораћу и над тобом да извршим пивски егзорцизам

Ma mani, uplasio sam se ovog ISIS-a da nam ne dodju glave pa trazim ima li ikakve sanse da nas ne zgrome.. Da ima koji vise kao sto je ovaj bilo bi sve ok.

[Иван Ивковић]

A Good Samaritan in Greece

 

Papa Stratis needs oxygen pumped to his lungs but that's not stopping him

from joining the ranks of Greeks helping refugees arriving in Europe

 

Father Efstratios Dimou – “Papa Stratis” to all and sundry –  sits in the front yard of his house, surrounded by flowers in earthenware pots, a small apricot tree and his big bear-like dog, Siba. Overhead on the Greek island of Lesvos, swallows fly in and out of a nest on the wall.

He wears a dark blue cassock, a pony tail and leather sandals which complement his big grey-blue mischievous eyes and long bushy grey beard. He suffers from a chronic respiratory condition and has to be permanently connected by a tube to a tank that supplies oxygen directly to his lungs. This does not stop him from smoking the occasional cigarette.

Papa Stratis, along with other local volunteers in the village of Kalloni, has been helping refugees since 2007 through the NGO ‘Agkalia‘. In all these years he reckons that he has helped some ten thousand people, including a few locals fallen on hard times. But never before has he seen so many refugees looking for help.

 

“Every day between one and two hundred people come to Kalloni,” the 57-year old Orthodox priest says. “The local people tell them to come to us for help. We give them food, water, milk for the babies, shoes, clothes. They can stay here too: we have blankets, mattresses on the floor.”

 

“They are life-seekers, they search for life, hope and the chance to live another day.”

 

Chased by the war in Syria and by conflict and persecution in other places, more than 26,000 refugees have arrived in Lesvos since January. They cross the short stretch of water that separates the island from Turkey in rubber dinghies and wooden boats. Many of them land on the remote northern coast and walk for up to 15 hours to Papa Stratis’ temporary shelter in Kalloni.

“I have seen small children with blisters on their feet and pregnant women holding their bellies and crying in pain,” he says sadly. “These people are not migrants, they do not choose to come here. They are children of war, fleeing bullets. They are life-seekers, they search for life, hope and the chance to live another day.”

 

Bahar, 8, from Afghanistan arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos with her brother Mahdi, 11, and her mother Majgan. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

 

Mujgan is Baha's mother and also mother to Mahdi, 11. The family arrived in Lesvos after making the journey from Turkey. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

 

Firoz, 23, and his brother Farzad, 21, from Afghanistan arrived on the Greek Island of Lesvos hoping to find their parents and their other two brothers. NGOs, like Agkalia run by Father Stratis, provide a meeting place for people searching for family members. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

 

In Kaloni village on the Greek island of Lesvos, refugees and migrants are given a place to rest at the Agkalia NGO centre run by Father Stratis. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

 

With local authorities overwhelmed by the 64,000 refugee arrivals to Greece since the beginning of the year, local activists like Papa Stratis and the network of volunteers “Village All Together”, are often taking on the sole responsibility of caring for the refugees on the Greek islands.

“We have no external funding,” he explains with a smile. “We depend completely on the generosity of the local people.”

His battered wine-red Citroën Xantia – he calls it “Tarzan” for its ability to scramble onto the island’s most inaccessible corners – is always packed with food, water and spare clothes.

 

Father Stratis calls his car “Tarzan” for its ability to scramble onto the island’s most inaccessible corners. He always makes sure it is packed with food, water and spare clothes to help people newly arrived on the island. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

Apostolis, 65, and Christos, 56, deliver mattresses to the Metochi Monastery on the Greek island of Lesvos. The Norwegian University of Agder rent the space and use it as a storage area for clothes and other items donated by Norwegian citizens. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

 

Father Stratis and his wife Stratoula have seen the high number of arrivals put a strain on the island's resources. UNHCR/Socrates Baltagiannis

 

 

“One day we found a baby asleep in his mother’s arms at the beach. We wanted to give him milk but didn’t have a bottle and he couldn’t drink from a glass. It was in the middle of the night, so we woke up all the pharmacies in town until we found a bottle,” Papa Stratis chuckles cheekily.

Hard-hit by a pervasive debt crisis and circumscribed by economics, politics and geography, small communities in the Greek islands are having to deal with the fallout of conflicts far away of which they know and understand little. Many islanders are wary of the destitute refugees who arrive in their midst. Others worry about the impact their presence will have on tourism. But many, like Papa Stratis, are rolling up their sleeves and stepping forward to help.

 

 

http://tracks.unhcr.org/2015/07/a-good-samaritan-in-greece/